Hello! My name is Fran Margolis and I am completing my Master in Teaching at Seattle University with an endorsement in Secondary Mathematics. I am excited to be teaching 6th and 8th grade math next fall. I enjoy the optimism, curiosity and enthusiasm that is typical of middle school students. Teaching will be a new career for me, after spending a number of years working in the high tech industry, but it has always been something that I've been passionate about. Many of my volunteer pursuits have incorporated teaching, including leading my Girl Scout troop or assisting in a classroom.
I believe active learning is especially important for middle school students. They need activities that will provide them with opportunities to become intellectually, socially and physically engaged with content so they can become critical thinkers and better informed citizens. Thus, I plan to incorporate many active learning tasks into my lessons. This will be facilitated by the curriculum I will be using next fall, known as Connected Mathematics (CMP). This curriculum promotes an inquiry-based teaching approach that helps students develop conceptual understanding, procedural fluency and mathematical reasoning skills using a sequenced set of active learning tasks.
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Hello! My name is Fran Margolis and I am completing my Master in Teaching at Seattle University with an endorsement in Secondary Mathematics. I am excited to be teaching 6th and 8th grade math next fall. I enjoy the optimism, curiosity and enthusiasm that is typical of middle school students. Teaching will be a new career for me, after spending a number of years working in the high tech industry, but it has always been something that I've been passionate about. Many of my volunteer pursuits have incorporated teaching, including leading my Girl Scout troop or assisting in a classroom.
I believe active learning is especially important for middle school students. They need activities that will provide them with opportunities to become intellectually, socially and physically engaged with content so they can become critical thinkers and better informed citizens. Thus, I plan to incorporate many active learning tasks into my lessons. This will be facilitated by the curriculum I will be using next fall, known as Connected Mathematics (CMP). This curriculum promotes an inquiry-based teaching approach that helps students develop conceptual understanding, procedural fluency and mathematical reasoning skills using a sequenced set of active learning tasks.